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  • They Dream of Home

    by Niven Busch ...
    Three marines, one seaman, and a raider scout are thrown together on their last patrol and, bound by hardship and tragedy, become the Group; a brotherhood that is their only home and sets the standard by which they live. When they return to Los Angeles in 1943, they are dedicated to staying united as they abandon death, doubt, and terror and endeavor to embrace life, hope, and assurance.However, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Duel in the Sun

    by Niven Busch ...
    Spanish Bit Ranch is the insular domain of Senator Jackson McCanles; a kingdom carved from the Texas soil in the 1880's and containing thousands of acres of “steers and wire, mesa and windmills and horses, cap rock and barren trail and pleasant river shallows.” A way of life ruled by the Code of the Plains and carefully constructed to withstand the relentless path of progress and interfering ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Furies

    by Niven Busch ...
    New Mexico cattle baron, Temple Caddy Jefford, hog-rich and gut-mean, doesn't think that either of his two sons has what it takes to manage the spread after he's gone. In lieu of a son's partnership, he offers the job to his flinty, shrewd, and passionate daughter, Vance who accepts the challenge and excels. As the bond between father and daughter grows, she becomes the beloved patriarch's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Titan Game

    by Niven Busch ...
    With action moving from the fast-track of Silicon Valley to a Moroccan prison cell, from secret war games in the California desert to sexual espionage in the nation's capital, this story tells of a young man brought up in the weapons business–and disgusted with it – who is suddenly forced to adjust to a world he never made. Jason Streck, once a hostage of another kind, inherits his father's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Hate Merchant

    by Niven Busch ...
    Caspar Damion Splane, pitchman extraordinaire, had a voice so compelling that no one could pass within earshot without looking to see what kind of man was talking. He could sell anything. At a time when nylon stockings were impossible to find and very expensive, Caspar popped open his sample case, hawked silk rejects as the real McCoy, and sold them all in one afternoon. His power over people ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • California Street

    by Niven Busch ...
    “If you locked the window, the past crept under the door.”As Jessica Saxe lies dying in a hospital, the story of the Saxe family — Anchylus, her husband, and Pamela, Alexandra, and Sharon, their three daughters — slowly unfolds, meandering backward and forward in time as the author skillfully merges the memory of the past with the challenges of the present and the reflection that hindsight kindles ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 21 Americans

    by Niven Busch ...
    Greatness can―and often does―arise out of undistinguished and ignoble beginnings. This collection of biographical vignettes of celebrated Americans of a bygone era tells the stories of twenty-one individuals―a baseball player, hotel owner, producer, band leader, umpire, jockey, actress, as well as enterprising promoters and entrepreneurs―who began as nobodies but achieved the impossible. Engaging, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Takeover

    by Niven Busch ...
    All four were against him, and four were all it took. A bogus hunting trip on a sweet windy range of a Texas ranch was used to get the gang together and, as they sat around the campfire, the jaws of the trip snapped shut. Fifty-two year old Jed Basco, president of Basco and Western, was fired. The reason? Trumped up charges and phony losses according to Jed, or, according to the board's quorum, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Day of the Conquerors

    by Niven Busch ...
    World War II is about to end and the conquerors are coming home. For Mark Gregory, a war correspondent who has just arrived in San Francisco, the end of the war means that he is about to be reunited with his wife and son. Apprehensive about the reunion, he also finds that San Francisco has been turned upside down and is mired in its own problems rooted in suspicion, hostility, fear and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Gentleman from California

    by Niven Busch ...
    In politics, the rise to the top can also correspond to the erosion of one's moral core. Ask Aline Cleary Belshaw ― her father was an honest and popular senator and she grew up immersed in the excitement of political life, believing in the unshakable fiber of the political process. So when she marries a grass-roots lawyer with political ambitions, she is happy to support him in every way. Until, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Continent's Edge

    by Niven Busch ...
    A whopping tale about a California ranching family (1923 to 1940) who are already rich but become crazy rich when one of the sons discovers oil―giving them a money printing machine they can use any way they like―which they proceed to do and then some. The oil business and endless stockholders meetings, horse racing, show business, movie stars, art, politics, oh yes, sex―that about covers it ... Read more

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  • The Actor

    by Niven Busch ...
    Dan Prader is “the perfect figure of a man.” A has-been stunt man and actor looking for the way back into a profession for which he was once flawlessly suited. Few remember him, but among those who do is his neglected and bitter son, Harold, overshadowed since childhood by the sheer size and charisma of his once famous father.Dan is still deeply loved by his wife, Jill, who though confounded by ... Read more

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